The conundrum of calculating carbon footprints
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The conundrum of calculating carbon footprints. / Strobel, Bjarne W.; Erichsen, Anders Christian; Gausset, Quentin.
Community Governance and Citizen-Driven Initiatives in Climate Change Mitigation. ed. / Jens Hoff; Quentin Gausset. Routledge, 2015. p. 7-27 (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - The conundrum of calculating carbon footprints
AU - Strobel, Bjarne W.
AU - Erichsen, Anders Christian
AU - Gausset, Quentin
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - A pre-condition for reducing global warming is to minimise the emission of greenhouse gasses (GHGs). A common approach to informing people about the link between behaviour and climate change rests on developing GHG calculators that quantify the ‘carbon footprint’ of a product, a sector or an actor. There is, however, an abundance of GHG calculators that rely on very different premises and give very different estimates of carbon footprints. In this chapter, we compare and analyse the main principles of calculating carbon footprints, and discuss how calculators can inform (or misinform) people who wish to adopt greener behaviour.
AB - A pre-condition for reducing global warming is to minimise the emission of greenhouse gasses (GHGs). A common approach to informing people about the link between behaviour and climate change rests on developing GHG calculators that quantify the ‘carbon footprint’ of a product, a sector or an actor. There is, however, an abundance of GHG calculators that rely on very different premises and give very different estimates of carbon footprints. In this chapter, we compare and analyse the main principles of calculating carbon footprints, and discuss how calculators can inform (or misinform) people who wish to adopt greener behaviour.
KW - Global warming
KW - Green house gas
KW - Footprint calculators
KW - Behaviour change
KW - Climate change
KW - carbon footprint
UR - https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138901094
U2 - 10.4324/9781315700298
DO - 10.4324/9781315700298
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-1-138-90109-4
T3 - Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
SP - 7
EP - 27
BT - Community Governance and Citizen-Driven Initiatives in Climate Change Mitigation
A2 - Hoff, Jens
A2 - Gausset, Quentin
PB - Routledge
ER -
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